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10/21/2019 RCIA Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer 1 Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer The Liturgical Year Introduction • The Church has a way for the faithful to remember, celebrate, and live today the events of Christ’s life – Every day, every moment sanctified • Mass • Liturgy of the Hours • A special calendar keeps faith alive and inspires a deeper love for Christ 2 2 Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer The Liturgical Year Brief History & Explanation of the Liturgical Year • Easter: only feast celebrated for first 300 years • Christmas: began being celebrated in 335-336 • Festivals and saints’ days added as time passed • First universal Church calendar: 1568 3 Papa Pio V by Scipione Pulzone (1544 – 1598) 3 1

10/21/2019 Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer The Liturgical Year A Description of the Liturgical Calendar • First cycle: Sundays and Feasts ( Temporal ) – Mass, family and the needy, relaxation • Second cycle: Feast days of Mary, martyrs, saints ( Sanctoral ) 4 4 Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer The Liturgical Year A Description of the Liturgical Calendar (cont.) • Feast day rankings (high -> low) – Solemnity : great significance, universal importance • E.g., Christmas, Easter, Pentecost, Immaculate Conception – Feast : great importance, but lower rank • E.g., Holy Family, Transfiguration, Birth of Mary – Memorial • E.g., Our Lady of Guadalupe, St. Thomas Aquinas 5 5 Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer The Liturgical Year The Liturgical Seasons • Advent – Beginning of liturgical year – Lasts 3-4 weeks – Joyful expectation of Second Coming of the Lord – Penitential – repent and reform in readiness – Color: purple 6 6 2

10/21/2019 Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer The Liturgical Year The Liturgical Seasons (cont.) • Christmas – Celebrate Jesus’ birth and early childhood – Themes: Joy, peace, Christ as Light of the World, the Incarnation – Color: White 7 7 Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer The Liturgical Year The Liturgical Seasons (cont.) • Lent – Forty days that precede the Easter Triduum – Time of prep, repentance, new turning to God – Fasting: Ash Wednesday, Good Friday – Abstinence: Ash Wednesday and all Fridays – Color: purple 8 8 Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer The Liturgical Year The Liturgical Seasons (cont.) • Easter – Relive miraculous events of first Easter – Christ is risen! conquering death – Ascension into Heaven: forty days after Easter – Pentecost (the Spirit coming): fifty days after Easter – Color: white (red for Pentecost) 9 9 3

10/21/2019 Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer The Liturgical Year The Liturgical Seasons (cont.) • Ordinary time – Remember salvation history and covenants – 34 weeks (between Christmas and Lent and then between Easter and Advent) 10 10 Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer The Liturgical Year Holy Days of Obligation • Faithful obliged (i.e., required) to attend Mass • Commemorate mysteries of profound and universal importance – Dec 8: Immaculate Conception – Dec 25: Nativity of the Lord – Jan 1: Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God – Ascension Thursday: forty days after Easter – Aug 15: Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Nov 1: All Saints 11 11 Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer History of the Mass Introduction • Mass makes present again the one sacrifice of Jesus • Mass instituted at the Last Supper – During Passover: liberation from slavery • Elements: bread, wine, lamb – At Last Supper: Body, Blood, Jesus • Recall other sacrifices – Abel, Abraham, Melchizedek 12 12 4

10/21/2019 Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer History of the Mass The Mass and the Early Church • Acts 20:7: Practice of coming together to break bread on Sunday – Adapted from liturgy of the synagogue • Justin Martyr (c. 150 AD) during time of persecution – Sunday – Liturgy of the Word – Homily – Presentation of Gifts – Eucharistic Prayer – Consecration – Communion 13 13 Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer History of the Mass The Mass and the Middle Ages • Held in basilicas • Mass more elaborate with same structure • The ordained began to wear vestments • Whole year gradually became patterned by major events of Jesus’ life • Gregory the Great (7 th c.): Roman Missal • Adaptations as Christianity spread: rites 14 14 Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer History of the Mass The Mass and the Council of Trent (1545-1563) • Made clear what Reformers were rejecting • Restated Church’s official teaching • Mass is a sacrifice • Jesus truly present: Body, Blood, Soul, Divinity • Tridentine Mass: emphasized tremendous holiness associated with celebrating Eucharist 15 15 5

10/21/2019 Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer History of the Mass The Mass and Vatican II (1962-1965) • Concern over lack of participation in the Mass • Allow use of vernacular language • More abundant use of Sacred Scripture • More prayers in the Roman Missal 16 16 Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer What is a Rite? • Words and actions used in liturgical acts • Same mystery celebrated in different forms • Reflect various traditions and customs • Same faith, same sacraments, same pope • Express one faith through authentic and varied cultures 17 17 Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer The Parts of the Mass Introduction • Last Supper: Jesus’ institution The Last Supper (1998) by Raoef Mamedov of the Eucharistic sacrifice of his Body and Blood – Perpetuates sacrifice of the cross until Second Coming • Jesus’ death and Resurrection remembered – Saving effects brought into the present – Jesus eaten and we receive His grace 18 18 6

10/21/2019 Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer The Parts of the Mass Opening Rites • Processional : reverence to altar then take seats • Greeting : sign of the cross and greeting • Penitential Rite : communal confession & absolution • Gloria : praise & thanks to God • Collect : expresses main theme of the Mass 19 19 Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer The Parts of the Mass The Liturgy of the Word • Readings : OT, Psalms, (NT,) Gospel • Homily : explains readings, encourages reflection to prep for Communion, life • Profession of Faith : summary of Church’s belief • Prayers of the Faithful : united with whole Church in concern for needs of all 20 20 Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer The Parts of the Mass The Liturgy of the Eucharist • Preparation of Gifts : bread & wine presented • Eucharistic Prayer : consecration of Eucharist • Lord’s Prayer : implore God for forgiveness • Sign of Peace : invited to exchange a sign • Lamb of God : Body & Blood is the Lamb that takes away sins • Communion : receive Eucharist in hand/tongue 21 21 7

10/21/2019 Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer The Parts of the Mass The Concluding Rite • Greeting • Blessing • Dismissal • Process out 22 22 Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer The Lord’s Prayer • Disciples asked Jesus how they should pray – Matthew 6:9-15 and Luke 11:2-4 • Summarizes the whole Gospel message • Thru redemption & Baptism we become adopted children of God – Thus Jesus is our brother – All Christians are brothers & sisters • Thus the Our Father is a prayer for Christian unity 23 23 Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer The Lord’s Prayer • To be reconciled with the Father: – Repent – Be baptized – Love God and neighbor – Believe in Jesus – Keep His commandments 24 24 8

10/21/2019 Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer The Lord’s Prayer • Seven petitions – First three centered on the Father • Hallowed be thy name: God is the source of holiness • Thy Kingdom come: righteousness, peace, joy, and the Second Coming • Thy will be done: His will over our will; acceptance of and conformity to His will 25 God The Father by Cima da Conegliano (c. 1459 – c. 1517) 25 Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer The Lord’s Prayer • Seven petitions (cont.) – Last four concerned with our needs • Give us our daily bread: materially and spiritually • Forgive us as we forgive: love is stronger than sin • Lead us not into temptation: give us the grace not to yield to temptation • Deliver us from evil: save us from sin and Satan 26 26 Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer The Lord’s Prayer • Doxology – “For thine is the kingdom…” – From earliest Christian literature – Said at Mass following a short prayer • Amen! – “So be it!” – Reaffirm what we have prayed 27 27 9

10/21/2019 Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer Forgiveness • Only Our Father petition repeated by Jesus after teaching the prayer • Our forgiveness by God is contingent upon our forgiveness of others – “Love your enemies” (Luke 6:27) – Forgive before being asked for forgiveness – Forgive “seventy time seven” times (Mt 18:22) • “[W]ith God all things are possible” (Mt 19:26) 28 28 Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer Forgiveness • “If anyone says, ‘I love God,’ and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seem, cannot love God whom he has not seen” (1 John 4:20) 29 29 Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer 30 30 10